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NYPD lab confirmed cocaine in three undercover buys at Woodside bar, counsel tells SLA
Summary
Counsel for the State Liquor Authority told members that a confidential informant made three prerecorded buys on 01/25/2025, 02/01/2025 and 03/14/2025; NYPD lab testing confirmed cocaine in the recovered packets and a March 21 search warrant recovered additional suspected narcotics.
During the March 28 special meeting, Margarita Marcico of the counsel's office summarized investigative steps the enforcement unit took before seeking a summary suspension. She told the Authority that a registered confidential informant entered the licensed premises and, on three occasions (01/25/2025, 02/01/2025 and 03/14/2025), exchanged prerecorded buy money for single ziplock bags that were secured by field teams and later tested by the New York City Police Department laboratory.
"The confidential informant then handed mister Luzcano $50 prerecorded buy money in exchange for 1 ziplock bag containing cocaine," Marcico said in the hearing record. Marcico said the bags from those buy operations were confirmed by the NYPD lab to contain cocaine. She added that on March 21 police executed a search warrant and recovered additional ziplock bags in several locations inside the premises; counsel noted that some of those recovered items had not yet been lab-tested as of the filing.
Commissioners asked whether arrests followed the police activity. Marcico said the owner was arrested and that she believed the Authority had the criminal complaint. Commissioner De Leon observed that the district attorney charged the owner with possession rather than sale; the DA's charging decision was not further detailed in the meeting record. No owner statement or defense response appears in the transcript.
